Mechthildian approaches to Afrikanistik

INHALT Roland Kießling / Raija L. Kramer: Warme weinführende Worte Torben Andersen: Clausal constituent order and cross-reference in Jumjum Klaus Beyer: Grammaticalization as it happens? A usage-based approach to morphosyntactic variation in Pana Ines Fiedler: The structuring of information in natural discourse in Ama (Nyimang) Orin Gensler: Against the “revisionist” view of Ethiosemitic prehistory – A methodological counter-critique Jeff Good / Jesse Lovegren: Remarks on the nasal classes in Mungbam and Naki Tom Güldemann: A shared pronominal canon in the eastern Macro-Sudan belt – Typological, areal and genealogical perspectives Bernd Heine / Christa König / Karsten Legère: A text study of discourse markers in Akie, a Southern Nilotic language of Tanzania Birgit Hellwig: The “goe” in Goemai – The development of modifiers in a Chadic language Roland Kießling: Experiencer encoding in Taa (Southern Khoisan) Raija L. Kramer: On locomotion, spatial orientation and lexical aspect – The functional diversity of deictic directional suffixes in Fali (“Adamawa”, North Cameroon) Karsten Legère: Empowering national languages – The Bantu language area Gudrun Miehe: Ventive, allative and deictic motion verbs in Cerma (Gur) Alice Mitchell: The pragmatics of a kinship term – The meaning and use of íiyá 'mother' in Datooga (Nilotic) Henning Schreiber: Contact induced variation and the collective self – Parallel interferences vs. transfers in communication Gabriele Sommer: Variation in Shiyeyi (Botswana/Namibia) Yvonne Treis: “They are only two, like the teats of a donkey” – Kambaata denumerals revisited Holger Tröbs: SEINS-Konstruktionen in afrikanischen Sprachen Rainer Voßen: On the reconstruction of Proto-LOTUKO obstruents